Flanders, Belgium · Europe
Brakel works well as a base: 5 minutes from Elst, 37km from Hallerbos.
Brakel is in Flanders, Belgium, with about 6,500 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Elst, about 4 km away.
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Within an hour or so of Brakel: Pairi Daiza (26 km), Ghent (28 km), Saint Bavo's Cathedral Ghent (28 km), Gravensteen (29 km).
The nearest famous roads are Koninklijke Baan Coast Road, Chimay Street Circuit and Brouwersdam.
Brakel is in Flanders, Belgium, about 4 km from Elst.
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8 notable places within an hour's drive.
landmark
Belgium's most-visited attraction: a 75-hectare animal park built around a former Cistercian abbey in Hainaut, with full-scale Chinese, Indonesian and Middle Kingdom gardens housing giant pandas, gorillas and elephants.
26 km · about 30 min drive
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Vibrant medieval Flemish city with stunning canal-side architecture, the Gravensteen castle, and the famous Ghent Altarpiece.
28 km · about 35 min drive
cathedral
This Gothic cathedral guards the Van Eyck brothers' luminous Ghent Altarpiece, a landmark of European painting.
28 km · about 30 min drive
castle
A grim moated stone castle of the Counts of Flanders rising straight from the canals in the centre of Ghent.
29 km · about 35 min drive
natural wonder
The 'Blue Forest' near Halle carpets itself with millions of wild bluebells under beech trees each spring.
37 km · about 45 min drive
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Opulent central square in Brussels surrounded by ornate guildhalls and the Gothic town hall, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
42 km · about 50 min drive
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Small bronze fountain sculpture of a urinating boy that has become a beloved symbol of Brussels since 1619.
42 km · about 50 min drive
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Futuristic building in Brussels shaped like an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times, built for the 1958 World Expo.
42 km · about 50 min drive
April to October
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